Jenny Offill Quotes
I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.Jenny Offill
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Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.
Walt Mossberg -
It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
Ed Wood -
After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
Ted Cruz -
If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.
Gary Wright -
We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
A. S. Byatt
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I have personally seen Ted Cruz stand up and fight on the issues that matter the most to conservatives, even when it wasn't popular in Congress.
Sam Graves -
The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
Adam Dell -
I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
Dan Brown -
It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
Zoe Saldana -
Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
K. D. Lang -
We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
Narendra Modi
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I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.
Viggo Mortensen -
All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
Jack Dempsey -
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson -
When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
Natalie Cole -
Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.
Frances Beinecke -
The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.
Victoria Moran
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I was in one of the first sitcoms that had a lot of Asians in it. It was called 'Gung Ho' on ABC.
Emily Kuroda -
People know I love to shoot action and that I'm not afraid of emotion.
Peter Berg -
The lnternet is turning economics inside-out. For example, everybody on the internet now wants stuff for free and there are so many free services available.
Uri Geller -
What's profound and exciting is the way young people are taking advantage of the fact that the Internet enables everyone to have a megaphone. It enables everyone to stand up and say, 'I deserve to be heard, and I demand that you listen.'
Chelsea Clinton -
Everything is not on a plate for you at Saint Martins - it's about personality, about working out how to do it.
Louise Wilson -
I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.
Jenny Offill